A bit of classic Berlin / The Museum Island / View of the National Gallery / Built in 1866–1876 by Joh. Heinrich Strack and Georg Gustav Erbkam from the designs of Stüler / From a photograph by W. Titzenthaler, Berlin

The most beautiful specimen of an early Gothic cloister in Germany / The Cistercian Cloister Maulbronn in Württemberg, reconstructed in 1201 / The so-called “Hell stairway” in the Cloister / From a photograph by August Krüger, Maulbronn

The Zwinger (bastion) at Dresden / Court surrounded by six pavilions joined together by galleries. / A wonder-work of German Baroque, built 1711–1722 by Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann (born at Dresden in 1662, died in Dresden in 1736) / With the permission of the Neuen Photographischen Gesellschaft, Berlin-Steglitz

From the golden period of commerce in the German Moyenage / The Artus or Junker Court in Dantzig, the festival hall of the Dantzig merchants / Master Heinrich Holzapfel of Cologne finished the magnificent stalls of the Hall in 1531 / From a photograph by the National Messbildanstalt, Berlin

The crown of Gothic architecture in Germany / The Cathedral at Cologne on the Rhine / Begun in 1248 under Gerhard von Rile; restoration in 1842 under Zwirner, completed in 1880 by Voigtel / From a photograph by the National Messbildanstalt, Berlin